Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many of your normal, well-balanced readers, who believe in protecting the people against themselves by judicious enactment of laws restraining the vicious and those devoid of self-control from inflicting upon themselves and others the consequences of self indulgence and vice, your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning...
...political speech, and bad politics at that, because Nominee Smith was left with an obvious retort. Moreover, as any student of recent political history knew, many a member of Nominee Hoover's own party stood with or near Nominee Smith on the specific proposals described as "social-istic." Vice President Dawes, for example, who had spoken just before Nominee Hoover from the Manhattan platform, had long been an archproponent of the principle involved in the Smith proposal for farm relief. Charles Evans Hughes, at that moment westbound to speak for Nominee Hoover in critical Missouri, had long been...
...water power. Nominee Smith was not slow to pick up the "Socialist" challenge. Speaking in Boston, he "called the roll" of eminent Republicans past and present whom, he said, would have to be classed as "Social ists" if he was one - the late Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Hughes, Vice President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public...
...Entrance of Commercial Bankers into the Investment Banking Field" will be the subject of S. W. Denio, vice president of the Old Colony Trust Company, when he speak to Business School students in the Baker Library at 7.15 o'clock this evening...
...incorporated in Maryland last week, authorized to sell $20,000,000 securities as an investment trust with the co-operation and advice of British bankers. Among its directors is Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist; Artemus L. Gates, son-in-law of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison and vice president of the New York Trust Co. Banker Gates, as a husky War aviator fell within German lines, intrepidly turned his machine gun on his captors, was imprisoned, escaped, was recaptured...